| Main Entry: | green |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | young, new, blooming |
Synonyms: |
bosky, budding, burgeoning, callow, developing, flourishing, foliate, fresh, grassy, growing, half-formed, immature, infant, juvenile, leafy, lush, maturing, pliable, puerile, pullulating, raw, recent, sprouting, supple, tender, undecayed, undried, unfledged, ungrown, unripe, unseasoned, verdant, verduous, youthful |
Antonyms: |
old, withered |
| Main Entry: | green |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | inexperienced |
Synonyms: |
callow, credulous, fresh, gullible, ignorant, immature, inexpert, ingenuous, innocent, naive, new, raw, tenderfoot, unconversant, unpolished, unpracticed, unseasoned, unskillful, unsophisticated, untrained, unversed, wet behind the ears, young, youthful |
Antonyms: |
experienced, expert, skilled |
| Main Entry: | green |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | emerald in color |
Synonyms: |
apple, aquamarine, beryl, bice, blue-green, chartreuse, fir, forest, grass, greenish-blue, jade, kelly, lime, malachite, moss, olive, pea, peacock, pine, sage, sap, sea, spinach, verdigris, vert, viridian, willow |
| Main Entry: | green |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | referring to practices or policies that do not negatively affect the environment |
Synonyms: |
biodegradable, ecological, environment-friendly, environmental, environmentally-safe |
| Main Entry: | awkward |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | clumsy, inelegant |
Synonyms: |
all thumbs, amateurish, artless, blundering, bulky, bumbling, bungling, butterfingers, coarse, floundering, gawky, graceless, green*, having two left feet, having two left hands, incompetent, inept, inexpert, klutzy, lumbering, maladroit, oafish, rude, stiff, stumbling, uncoordinated, uncouth, unfit, ungainly, ungraceful, unhandy, unpolished, unrefined, unskilled, unskillful |
Antonyms: |
adroit, artful, dexterous, elegant, graceful, handy, skillful |
| Main Entry: | callow |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | immature |
Synonyms: |
crude, green, guileless, inexperienced, infant, jejune, jellybean, juvenile, kid, low tech, naive, not dry behind ears, puerile, raw, sophomore, tenderfoot, unbaked, unfledged, unripe, unsophisticated, untrained, untried, young |
| Notes: | callow means lacking experience of life, immature - while shallow means lacking depth of intellect, emotion, or knowledge |
Antonyms: |
experienced, initiated, mature, sophisticated |
| Main Entry: | childish |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | immature, silly |
Synonyms: |
adolescent, baby, babyish, callow, childlike, foolish, frivolous, green, infantile, infantine, innocent, jejune, juvenile, kid stuff, naive, puerile, unsophisticated, young, youthful |
Antonyms: |
adult, mature, sensible, serious, wise |
| Main Entry: | credulous |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | gullible, naive |
Synonyms: |
accepting, believing, born yesterday, dupable, easy mark, falling for, green, overtrusting, simple, swallow whole, taken in, trustful, trusting, uncritical, unquestioning, unsophisticated, unsuspecting, unsuspicious, unwary |
Antonyms: |
skeptical, suspecting, suspicious, untrusting |
| Main Entry: | crisp |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | brittle, dry |
Synonyms: |
crispy, crumbly, crunchy, crusty, firm, fresh, friable, green, plump, ripe, short, unwilted |
Antonyms: |
flexible, limp, soft |
| Main Entry: | crude |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | unrefined, natural |
Synonyms: |
amateurish, callow, coarse, green, harsh, homemade, homespun, immature, impure, in the rough, inexpert, makeshift, outline, prentice, primitive, raw, rough, rough-hewn, rude, rudimentary, rustic, simple, sketchy, thick, undeveloped, unfinished, unformed, ungraded, unmatured, unmilled, unpolished, unprepared, unprocessed, unproficient, unsorted, untaught, untrained, unworked, unwrought |
Antonyms: |
formal, planned, refined, sophisticated, stilted |